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Mechanism of silica deposition in sorghum silica cells.
The New phytologist - 1 Jan 2017
Kumar Santosh, Milstein Yonat, Brami Yaniv, Elbaum Michael, Elbaum Rivka
Abstract excerpt
Grasses take up silicic acid from soil and deposit it in their leaves as solid silica. This mineral, comprising 1-10% of the grass dry weight, improves plants' tolerance to various stresses. The mechanisms promoting stress tolerance are mostly unknown, and even the mineralization process is poorly understood. To study leaf mineralization in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), we followed silica deposition in epidermal...
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